Former state representative Josh Svaty is running for governor, triggering the first contested Democratic gubernatorial primary in Kansas in two decades. Svaty will face former Wichita Mayor Carl ...

Kansas Democrats will have a primary for governor for the first time in nearly two decades after Josh Svaty announced his candidacy Tuesday. Svaty, an Ellsworth Democrat, spent seven years in the ...

Josh Svaty starts the conversation by saying he’s doing well. But he’s not, really. Not even close. The 38-year-old Democrat, widely hailed as a next-generation star for a party that lacks them, is ...

As a Kansas legislator, Josh Svaty voted with his heavily Republican, rural district on abortion. But navigating this issue may be a trickier proposition in the Democratic gubernatorial primary. Shane ...

Ahead of the 2026 session of the Kansas Legislature, the Derby City Council heard from staff and the city lobbyist — Josh ...

Joshua Svaty, 37, announced he would seek the Democratic nomination for Kansas governor during a news conference Tuesday outside the Ellsworth Co-op. A former Kansas legislator who also served as the ...

Katrina Gier Lewison, a 1996 Buhler High School graduate who went on to become a Black Hawk helicopter platoon leader and serve in the Iraqi war, is Democratic gubernatorial hopeful Joshua Svaty’s ...

Josh Svaty stands near the Missouri River and waits for a beer as people in tutus caked in glitter run by him wearing rainbow flags like capes, superheroes of the social moment on this Saturday ...

The race to be the next governor of Kansas is beginning in earnest. Josh Svaty picked a political no-name to team with in his run for governor. But the pick is someone who checks off boxes that Svaty ...

KANOPOLIS — New carpet at home was among the reasons Connie and Dave Svaty decided that this spring was the time to add on-farm shopping to their produce business. After some 25 years of selling ...